CANON CAT LOVER STARSCREAM
desperately craving a decepticon slice of life office comedy
(rough and doodles below)
(Ain’t It Fun - Paramore)
the Decepticon rumor/gossip mill, who are they talking about?
No warship is complete wthout a kitten.
oh my gosh this is the cutest thiiiing
G1 Decepticons! And KREMZEEEEEK
Details about transformers one I noticed:
1. D brushes off the dirt off of Orion.
2. It seems that only the miners use the trains — meaning only the cogless use public transport since cogged transformers can simply go where they like. Is it possible that some places were off limits to the cogless bc the trains do not go there?
3. What tells a lot about a person is not what they just say, it's also what they don't say. A lot of people do note upon D-16 being "content" or even "happy"/perfectly fine with the system, with his biggest issue is that he's not the one in charge, but this bit of dialogue make it clear that isn't the case:
Orion: aren't you tired of being treated like we're nothing?
D-16: *beat* He had every right to hit me. I interfered.
Yes, D tries to justify the system, but he also intriguingly didn't answer Orion's question. We don't get to hear is opinion at all, and he instead deflects. And more interesting, is that Orion seems to have picked up on this and changed the subject, going for levity.
4. Despite Darkwing dropping them down to sub-level 50 hard and having a very loud exchange within the cramped room, B-127 didn't react to them at all. In fact, it took a while before he responds, and even then he starts off with a presumably angry rant before unmasking himself and says his first coherent line — "You're real!"
It's heavily implied due to B's extensive isolation, he's had hallucinations before — I think he ignored the commotion at first bc he assumed it was another hallucination, tried yelling angrily to "scare" the visions away, but when Orion and D still remain, it finally clicks to B that they're real people and not made up by his mind.
5. Starscream's voice is incredibly hostile and vicious when we first meet him, but when B reveals they're the High Guard and Starscream starts explaining what he and the group has been up to, his voice took a calmer and more reasonable tone.
6. Also, shout out to Starscream's unspoken competency — he managed to keep the High Guard alive and intact for 50 cycles, all the while evading ruthless searching from Sentinel and Airachnid, occasional surveillance from the Quintessons, surviving the turbulent surface, and operating on inconsistent sources of energon via train raids. Those are genuinely some pretty tough odds, but they're all still up and going.
7. When Elita and B tries to stop Megatron, Megatron pointedly sheathes his fusion cannon and instead opts to fight them hand-to-hand . He doesn't even summon his other gun on the other hand. Considering he doesn't hesitate to use whatever firepower he has to fight Optimus, it's heavily implied that at that time, Megatron doesn't want a repeat of accidental misfiring and has no intentions to kill the two despite them going against him.
8. D-16/Megatron is really, really good at catching punches — he caught Darkwing's punch in time and stop it dead in its tracks as D-16, and he does the same to Optimus as Megatron. It's implied that D-16 is quite strong with fast reflexes.
9. Continuing on that line of thought, the fact that mining requires the miner to have fast reaction time and reflexes is why Orion and D-16 was able to survive Iacon 5000.
10. Soundwave transforms through a front flip, Shockwave transforms through a cannonball dive, Starscream transforms like most flier types do via twisting his body.
11. The High Guard is comprised of mostly proto-Decepticons, while the cogless miners were comprised of mostly proto-autobots. When the siege of Sentinel's tower starts, and the High Guard starts to get overwhelmed, they're rescued by the miners. So, Autobots and Decepticons worked together to take down a tyrant once upon a time. And then, it won't take long before they became enemies.
12. Considering the Quintesson war raged for thousands of cycles before Sentinel's reign interrupted it, it's quite likely the High Guard are all thousands of cycles old in minimum. Megatron is approx 50 cycles or less. Make of that what you will.
13. D-16 had his fellow miners as co-workers, acquaintances, or even friends — people he grew up with, many of whom would end up as future Autobots. All of whom he would inevitably clash against eventually.
i cant stop thinking about what happens once megatron leaves with the high guard. imagine this random 19 year old that almost killed your leader is now in charge and he just had the worst day of his life i'm talking mascara streaming down the face chest heaving breaking out in random sobs and you're supposed to be like Can we launch an offensive Can we Please Launch a fucking offensive
The part to me that’s insane is that the High Guard probably don’t know that Megatron, 19, in the midst of a major mental health crisis and fully destroying his support system, is not business as usual. They just met and have no idea how severe the changes to his personality and behavior have been over the course of at most, a weekend.
i cant stop thinking about what happens once megatron leaves with the high guard. imagine this random 19 year old that almost killed your leader is now in charge and he just had the worst day of his life i'm talking mascara streaming down the face chest heaving breaking out in random sobs and you're supposed to be like Can we launch an offensive Can we Please Launch a fucking offensive
rhetoric, sound and fury: ✓ / soundwave lurks: ✓ / shockwave plots: ✓ / starscream lives to scheme again: ✓ / the decepticons.
✨Silly little guys✨
the bad guys
really really bad
love that they got away with this
Decepticon Popsicles!
I can totally see Shockwave realizing he needs to side with Starscream but Soundwave is way too attached to Megatron himself. It would probably be StarShock vs. MegaSound.
I’ve seen some spins of Soundwave where he takes a good hard look at Megatron’s obsession with spiting Optimus: preventing Starscream from killing Optimus so HE can do it but then not doing it, cyberforming Earth instead of restoring Cybertron and thus goading Optimus into destroying the one thing capable of restoring Cybertron, etc. And from there, Soundwave decides that Megatron’s petty obsession has become so detrimental to the Decepticon cause, that Megatron himself has become the largest obstacle to a Decepticon victory. Add or subtract “and he makes really bad decisions under the influence of dark energon” as needed.
And so Soundwave reluctantly turns against Megatron because the alternative is accepting inevitable loss.
(Or not so reluctantly, depending on how bitter he is toward Megatron for letting his grudge drive the army into the ground.)
In a verse like that—where he really gets his optics open to what Megatron’s own actions have led the Decepticons to—I can see him joining an alliance of Decepticon officers in mutiny.
But no doubt, he’d be the very last one to turn on Megs.